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  <div id="toc"><h2 style="cursor: pointer;">Table of Contents</h2><ol><li><a href="#toc0">About Wandering Books</a></li><li><a href="#toc1">What is a collective library?</a></li><li><a href="#toc2">What can I do here?</a></li><li><a href="#toc3">The Book Commons</a></li><li><a href="#toc4">Logistics and socializing</a></li><li><a href="#toc5">Project history</a>
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<h2 id="toc0">About Wandering Books</h2>
<p>Our goal is to create a web application to allow anyone to turn
their personal book collection into a lending library. There are other
implementations of the basic idea, but Wandering Books takes the
concept much further: it is not just a personal library manager, but
rather a collective library manager and it will bring forth a "Book
Commons".</p>


<h2 id="toc1">What is a collective library?</h2>
<p>It's the collection of all books belonging to you and to your
friends which are available for lending. The catalog of such a library
is the union of the catalog of your personal collection plus your
friends personal collections. Therefore, the catalog is different for
each user.</p>


<h2 id="toc2">What can I do here?</h2>
<p>- catalog your books, by typing ISBNs or scanning barcodes<br>
- invite friends who will have access to your books*<br>
- search, tag, comment, recommend and rate books in your union catalog*<br>
- ask to borrow a book*<br>
- approve lending of a book*<br>
- get e-mail remembering to return a book, or to ask for a book which is overdue*</p>

<p>(*) these are still under development</p>


<h2 id="toc3">The Book Commons</h2>
<p>Users will be able to "liberate" some their books, which then become part of a <a href="http://wanbooks.org/horde/wicked/display.php?page=BookCommons&amp;referrer=WanderingBooks">BookCommons</a>
available to all users. A liberated book can be held by anyone as long
as no one else wants to borrow it. If you are holding a liberated book
and another person asks for it, you are required to pass it on within a
certain period.</p>


<h2 id="toc4">Logistics and socializing</h2>
<p>Since a distributed community library has no building, users must
meet to exchange books. This can be done at their workplaces, schools,
cafes, pubs etc. The system will help arrange such meetings, reminding
each user which to books to bring and collect. The need to personally
meet other users is seen as a feature of the system, providing a good
excuse for meeting like-minded people.</p>


<h2 id="toc5">Project history</h2>
<p>Wandering Books was born in the 2006 edition of <a nicetitle="http://code.google.com/soc/" href="http://code.google.com/soc/" class="external" target="_blank">Google Summer of Code</a>. Our mentor was Chuck Hagenbuch of the <a nicetitle="http://www.horde.org" href="http://www.horde.org/" class="external" target="_blank">Horde Project</a>. Without the support of Google, Horde and Chuck, this would still be just an idea.</p>

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